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Goin' Up Yonder: Walter Cronkite Passes at Age 92
From CNN: Walter Cronkite, the CBS anchorman known as “Uncle Walter” for his easygoing, measured delivery and “the most trusted man in America” for his rectitude and gravitas, died Friday night in his New York home, CBS reported. Cronkite was 92. “Walter was always more than just an anchor. He was someone we could trust…
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We’re Relevant, Really!
“What we gonna do now?” As part of the ongoing celebration of the NAACP’s centennial, Cornel West and Julian Bond got together in a New York City bookstore Thursday to try to answer this question. Lately, the venerable (read old, stale, irrelevant) civil rights organization, while universally lauded for its past contributions to fighting discrimination…
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Wanting to Avoid the One-Time, Bashir Avoids Uganda Conference
From Al Jazeera: “Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s president, has decided not to travel to Uganda for an economic conference after he was warned he could be arrested on war crimes charges, officials in Kampala have said. “The understanding is that he will not be coming,” James Mugume, the permanent secretary of Uganda’s foreign affairs ministry, said on Friday. The…
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Obama Says: Those Indonesian Attacks Were Extremely Lame
From Breibart: “President Barack Obama is condemning a pair of suicide bombings at American hotels in Indonesia on Friday. Investigators say the attacks at two hotels in Jakarta killed eight people and wounded more than 50. Obama says the U.S. government “stands ready” as a friend and partner to help its ally in the effort…
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Don't Believe The Hype?
In two months 65% of all filers for unemployment insurance will have run out of their standard 26 weeks. That means a total of 4.4 million people will have exhausted their basic benefits. Although some may be able to receive an additional year of unemployed benefits, traditionally the Labor Department doesn’t track anyone that has…
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VIDEO: Pat Buchanan Reminds Us "White Men Built This Country"
Next week, Maddow will be sitting down with some Black Israelites from Philly who plan to call her the devil.
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Obama and His Wishful Preaching
I love President Obama. And the no-excuses speech he delivered to the NAACP convention yesterday was radical and amazing. I have to admit: I refrained from grinning whenever Obama broke into “black preacher talk”. Everyone knows the man was born into a white family in Hawaii and black preacher talk wasn’t an everyday occurrence, but…
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The Obama Doctrine: Racism’s Real; Deal With It
Everybody wants to know how, if at all, we should think about race in the Obama era. Well, President Barack Obama himself offered an answer in his speech to the NAACP last night. The address—his first explicitly on race as president—put a coda on his remarkable Philadelphia campaign speech, in which he addressed questions raised…
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The Best Year in Jazz Ever
Ask 30 avid jazz fans, the type who cherish their vinyl LPs, to name their 30 favorite recordings and the following discs will show up on a lot of the lists. Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, John Coltrane’s Giant Steps, Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come, Dave Brubeck’s Time Out and two by…